David Parke
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"Our young men have sperm counts half what they ought to be," Kennedy said.
Vaccine Injuries, Violent Video Games, and Infertility Challenge: RFK Jr. Releases New MAHA 'Strategy' Report for Children
gizmodo.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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@aptshadow.bsky.social Daughter tested positive for COVID last night, and now I feel like I’m on the Excavations team. (PS - saw you speak in Edinburgh two weeks ago!)
September 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
@aptshadow.bsky.social Daughter tested positive for COVID last night, and now I feel like I’m on the Excavations team. (PS - saw you speak in Edinburgh two weeks ago!)
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The problem with classic movies is that too few of them frame the actors as tiny figures dwarfed by a Mac OS screensaver.
'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) vs 'The Wizard of Oz at Sphere' (2025)
Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI
Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI
August 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The problem with classic movies is that too few of them frame the actors as tiny figures dwarfed by a Mac OS screensaver.
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briefly lifting my “no talking about Bluesky on Bluesky” policy to say: you cannot make any place like the good old days of Twitter anymore than you can lose your virginity twice. We had one day of hashtag games on here when the big anti-Elon bump hit but the world’s not that fun anymore either
June 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
briefly lifting my “no talking about Bluesky on Bluesky” policy to say: you cannot make any place like the good old days of Twitter anymore than you can lose your virginity twice. We had one day of hashtag games on here when the big anti-Elon bump hit but the world’s not that fun anymore either
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Anne Bancroft celebrating the news of her Academy Award win for THE MIRACLE WORKER with soon-to-husband Mel Brooks in 1963.
June 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Anne Bancroft celebrating the news of her Academy Award win for THE MIRACLE WORKER with soon-to-husband Mel Brooks in 1963.
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“I question the value for a reader of an apparently-computer-written review from a two-movie critic being the top result.”
The most prominent review of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning via #Google search is, well, something of a mystery.
filmstories.co.uk/news/google-...
filmstories.co.uk/news/google-...
Google, and the mystery of its top-ranked Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning review
The most prominent review of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning via Google search is, well, something of a mystery.
filmstories.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“I question the value for a reader of an apparently-computer-written review from a two-movie critic being the top result.”
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I have no desire to move to England except for the cool way they pronounce the word “privacy,” but that’s a strong motive
May 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I have no desire to move to England except for the cool way they pronounce the word “privacy,” but that’s a strong motive
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Calling it by its name. By me. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/23/t...
We Can No Longer Dismiss Trump’s Blatant Racism
The meeting with Ramaphosa marked a reversion to the open racism of U.S. presidents long past.
foreignpolicy.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Calling it by its name. By me. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/23/t...
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A light lunch with an adorable Shirley MacLaine in 1959.
April 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A light lunch with an adorable Shirley MacLaine in 1959.
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"Olson, of the Cato Institute, said that while 'Elon Musk has been spreading unverified and unverifiable claims about illegal voting by noncitizens for a year or more.… by overwhelming majorities, those who lack citizenship neither attempt to vote nor succeed in voting.” [@factcheck.org]
Musk's Unsupported Claim to Have Unveiled Massive Illegal Voting by Noncitizens - FactCheck.org
Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency he leads claim to have unearthed evidence to prove a longstanding conspiracy theory about Democrats orchestrating illegal voting by noncitizens on...
www.factcheck.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Olson, of the Cato Institute, said that while 'Elon Musk has been spreading unverified and unverifiable claims about illegal voting by noncitizens for a year or more.… by overwhelming majorities, those who lack citizenship neither attempt to vote nor succeed in voting.” [@factcheck.org]
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Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process.
Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process.
Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
@kathyvalentine.bsky.social Just saw the news about Clem. So sorry for your loss.
April 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
@kathyvalentine.bsky.social Just saw the news about Clem. So sorry for your loss.
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Congratulations to Sarah Pinsker! Sarah's novelette “Signs of Life” is a finalist for the Best Novelette Hugo Award! You can read it here! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/sign...
April 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Congratulations to Sarah Pinsker! Sarah's novelette “Signs of Life” is a finalist for the Best Novelette Hugo Award! You can read it here! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/sign...
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Great pic of a Turkish student reading Jean Jacque Rousseau's Social Contract against the backdrop of anti-terror armoured vehicles in Ankara where protests against Erdogan’s coup are in full fling.
March 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Great pic of a Turkish student reading Jean Jacque Rousseau's Social Contract against the backdrop of anti-terror armoured vehicles in Ankara where protests against Erdogan’s coup are in full fling.
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Supposed free speech platform conducts itself remarkably like regime media.
Elon Musk's social media platform X has suspended several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey amid widespread civil unrest in the country.
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.
www.politico.eu
March 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Supposed free speech platform conducts itself remarkably like regime media.
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Listen: Trump’s targeting of law firms endangers the right to counsel and the Constitution . @foxmike90.bsky.social and I speak to @cob.bsky.social at the Cato Daily Podcast www.cato.org/multimedia/c...
By Targeting Certain Law Firms, the President Is Threatening the Constitution
Featuring Walter Olson, Mike Fox, and Caleb O. Brown
www.cato.org
March 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Listen: Trump’s targeting of law firms endangers the right to counsel and the Constitution . @foxmike90.bsky.social and I speak to @cob.bsky.social at the Cato Daily Podcast www.cato.org/multimedia/c...
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We're all going to have to learn a lot about law, courts, judges, procedure, precedent etc. in the next weeks/months/years. And that means a lot of people here will overconfidently imagine they're experts. I recommend following a couple of real ones: @chrisgeidner.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social.
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We're all going to have to learn a lot about law, courts, judges, procedure, precedent etc. in the next weeks/months/years. And that means a lot of people here will overconfidently imagine they're experts. I recommend following a couple of real ones: @chrisgeidner.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social.
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Solidarity with Columbia law profs, who are doing what they can. This is a hell of a statement. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
By Kate Andrias, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Jamal Greene, Olatunde Johnson, Jeremy Kessler, Gillian Metzger, and David Pozen On Thursday, the ...
balkin.blogspot.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Solidarity with Columbia law profs, who are doing what they can. This is a hell of a statement. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
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Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.
March 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.
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Happy 122nd birthday to Lawrence Welk.
Please enjoy his fever dream rendition of California Dreamin'.
Please enjoy his fever dream rendition of California Dreamin'.
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Happy 122nd birthday to Lawrence Welk.
Please enjoy his fever dream rendition of California Dreamin'.
Please enjoy his fever dream rendition of California Dreamin'.